Hegel's Systematic ContingencyJohn Burbidge shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel's philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. To know without fear of failure is to expect that experience will confound our confident claims to knowledge. And the universal character of all life involves acting, discovering what happens as a result, and incorporating both intention and result into a new comprehensive understanding. Burbidge explores how Hegel applied this approach when he turned from his logic to chemistry, biology, psychology and history, and suggests how a Hegelian might function within the changed circumstances of contemporary science. |
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Philosophy and History | 1 |
The Necessity of Contingency | 16 |
Secondness | 48 |
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absolute idea absolute knowing abstract Anderes Ansichsein beautiful soul become being-in-itself bestimmt chapter chemical chemism chemistry claim cognition concept consciousness contingency daher death determinate dialectical discussion distinct distinguishes dynamic elective affinity emerge Emil Fackenheim Encyclopaedia Logic Enzyklopädie 1830 essence Existenz experience formal G.W.F. Hegel genus gesetzt GW 9 Hegel's Logic Hegel's Philosophy Houlgate human identified identity immediacy immediate inherent initial integrated interaction intuition kind lectures living individual Logik means mediator möglich Möglichkeit moments move negation negative nonetheless Notwendigkeit object organism paragraphs particular passions Phenomenology Phenomenology of Spirit Philosophy of Mind Philosophy of Nature Philosophy of Spirit posited psychology pure thought rational real necessity real possibility realm reason reciprocal reflection representation result Science of Logic sense simply singular stage structure subjective sublated substance syllogism systematic teleology term theory things thinking tion transition turn ultimate understanding unhappy consciousness unity universal unmittelbare Wirklichkeit words